The Deal

The Sheffield City Region has a clear plan to grow its economy. We want to create 70,000 jobs in the City Region over the next 10 years. We will focus on three key areas:

Investing in infrastructure – that means better places to live, learn, work and do business in with improved roads and transport

Better skills, employment and education

Growing businesses whether home grown or attracting new ones

Like other northern areas, we need to boost our economy, have more opportunities for local people to work in higher skilled, higher income jobs, be part of a highly interconnected northern economy with Leeds and Manchester. The City Region needs a stronger and larger private sector.

Because we have put forward a deal as part of the Government’s devolution offer, this means we will have a Metro-Mayor as part of the package. The deal document was signed and can be found here Sheffield City Region Devolution Deal Agreement